I signed up to join the army when I was in high school, but I got accepted to art college after that, so the recruiter was cool and got me out somehow! It was the 80's and I loved punk rock girls, easy choice. I have some of my college paintings up in my garage.
Bah! Every spare dime gets spent on car parts, not Knick-knacks...and with a one car garage, every square inch goes to working on the car...............ok, ok, I DO have a neon lighted Pontiac clock in the room right next to my garage.
I appreciate these in my kitchen more then the garage! But they're Nik Nacks to me. I know I get grief from mates they're not on cars .
I'm way too lazy to clean all that stuff you guys have in your garages! I have a 27 Chrysler grill shell, a single 50s Chrysler Hemi valve cover, and a 75 year Mopar parts metal sign hanging on one wall. Under the stuff hanging on the side wall, are 4' x 8' sheets of 20G, 18G 16G and 11G, and usually partial sheets of each thickness standing on edge, just inside the standing sheets are several 20' lengths (or shorter) of angle, flat, round and square bar stock, and a few lengths of different square, rectangle and round tubes. going to the back corner is the 120 gal vertical 220 air Compressor. In my spare time, I make steel crosses. About 10 varieties hang on the back wall. I am a welding gas sub-dealer, a couple feet from the air compressor is the area where I keep the flammable gasses. Across the remaining back wall on the floor are buckets of various formed small steel pieces. The tool box stands near the other back corner, with the corner occupied with shorter then 8' long metal lengths of various steel shapes. A bench with the vice & grinder on it starts towards the front, then the torch and tanks occupy a couple feet of floor space. Then a second , larger work bench that is partially covered with short pieces of different steel shapes and styles that I just know I'm going to use someday. On the wall above the 2nd bench is a peg board holding several often used tools and an assortment of other stuff used in a welding shop. A couple feet after the 2nd bench is a 1 drawer, one door, old metal kitchen cabinet that is my desk. Next to it is the walk in door, and the front corner. Between the corner and the 16' garage door is a small bolt cabinet. Occupying some of the center floor space are a couple of Miller 220 welders, a cherry picker, 2 heavy duty steel saw horses, a couple floor jacks and several jack stands. Everything has that nice brown dust coating from grinding rusty metal and mig welding. When you add a car to work on, that 24' x 24' garage gets pretty full. There is a back room, it is 7' wide & 24' long. The walk in door entrance to the garage is on the side towards the front, and the building exit is at the front. Going back, along the side wall is the storage area for the non-flammable welding gasses, then my home made 52" long metal break, and a bead roller. There is a shelf that goes corner to corner across the back wall that holds grinding wheels and an assortment of other junk. Coming back forward is the furnace, and a shelf holding body tools and a small shelf holding paint cans and such. There is a place to put my plasma cutter, and a garbage can to hold my crushed pop cans. There is about a 2' 6" walkway down the center of the back room. I don't have much room for nick-ncks. Gene
The wheels aren't in my garage, I know. They're all too tough to run on anything. They were on my 56 f100 when I picked it up.
I found these wax cans while cleaning my dad's workbench. Now they're on mine. The "Dr. Dorner Liquid 1st Class" probably dates to ~1957-8. The others to the mid-'70's. This F-14 Tomcat tailhook is my workbench magazine/catalog paperweight. The Tomcat squadron's Maintenance Chief gave it to me when I was the Flight Deck Officer on the George Washington (CVN-73).
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